I installed actions in 2 places and now i have duplicates in the available action list (click the arrow to the right of the action tab to see the menu for add, remove, options etc and a list of all available actions and sets).

When you moved then out you only removed them from the fly-out menu (assuming of course that you then restarted Photoshop). The actions that are already open in the Actions panel are stored in the preferences so to clear them out either reset the preferences (why bother?) or just remove them the old fashioned way by dragging them to the trash can icon.

the files are not on the action menu, but in the list of available actions when you right click on the actiions bar.

I had no problem removing all actions from the menu in pshop, its just that i have a large list of multiple entries for the same actions in this list.

Normally, it gets this list from the folders i mentioned earlier. I temporarily emptied these folders, but the list persists. I did do a reset of phop to default at startupo, but this doesn't affect this list.

I have removed all the actions from the actions panel; however as you can see I have a long history of duplicates of prior actions in the pop out window. I've removed the sources of those (emptied the folders as mentioned in the first msg).

I want to delete all the actions on the pop out, then I will restore the actions to the proper folders.

All those should be in the two folders that you mentioned in your first post. The ones above the line between Video Actions and 3D Product Box are found in the Program Files folder tree while those beneath that line are in the Users folder tree. All you have to do is delete the duplicate .ATN files from those folders.

Thanks for the final solution to this post. It worked for me after removing all ATN files (except default) from the Preset folder. I was getting duplicates even triplicates of actions I already had installed.and forgotten. I hadn't encountered this before in earlier versions. Thanks again.